[CoLoCo] New Member in Longmont

[Richard Guenther]

Joey,

I teach at Skyline High School. However, I have family in Co. Springs and will probably move there in the future (unless the family moves here, which MAY happen...)--so TJ,  don't feel alone down there.  I'm there quite often :-).

I went Linux last year and really never looked back--in fact a student of mine got me into it.  Dumped Vista off of my laptop the day before my Norton Internet Security Prophylactic Package Or Whatever expired.  Was using Mepis and was pretty active on the Mepis forums, but then went to Ubuntu for various reasons.

Math teacher by profession, also a life-long science fiction (books--not into trek) nut.  Also a fan of the DCP (Digital Comics Preservation) group.  I'm not great at programming, I'm not intimate with the kernal--but I love the open-source philosophy and I'm in a position where I can really do a lot of Linux/Ubuntu promotion--kids are very open-minded.  

I try to learn more constantly and have many people who are interested in my programming club.  I got the club to be sponsored by MESA, which brings in some $, and I got them to agree totally with my stance on open-source software (before we agreed I sent them many many links on OS, the CP4E initiative, etc).  It was pretty funny, actually.  They are so in need of teachers to work with minority and at-risk students that they agreed to fund a 100% open-source programming club. Okay.  Maybe we can all go to Pycon this year :-) 

I have a good time teaching.  Just wish I knew even more about programming.  I can probably contribute more in Ubuntu advocacy than anything.  I battle our district tech people every day about certain issues, but I have also found some real good guys there too (the Linux Penguin in the one guys sig kind of helped....).  Still, I'm amazed how little the average teacher knows about OS software.  Our Astronomy teacher nearly fell over when I showed her Stellarium--she couldn't believe that program was free and open-source.  I'm trying to change those views slowly.  Otherwise all decisions about things like geometry software are decided solely by what a few teachers have heard of (so they go out and buy Geometer's Sketchpad, because that's THE geometry program).

I ramble.  I'm sure you have experienced similar things.

P.S. Does Mark Lutz (author of Programming Python) live in Longmont?  

----- Original Message ----
From: Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com>
To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2007 8:56:27 AM
Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] New Member in Longmont

OOh, 6!

Joey, Alex, Richard, Chris, and Paul are the ones I know off. I'm
pretty sure I'm missing one person though.

Joey

On 9/7/07, Alex Comer <alex at platinumcode.com> wrote:
> Are you counting me Joey? Who all is in Longmont?
> Alex
>
>
> On 9/7/07, Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > Welcome aboard.  I think this makes 5 of us now from Longmont.   What
> > school do you work for?
> >
> > Joey
> >
> > On 9/6/07, Richard Guenther <heistooheavy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello everyone, I just found out this list exists.
> > >
> > > I teach math and have a programming club at a high school of 1450
> students.
> > > The club focuses on open-source software (Python is our main lang).
> > >
> > > So, greetings!
> > >
> > > Richard
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